Experimental study on flame pattern formation and combustion completeness in a radial microchannel

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2398-2406

  Fan, Aiwu ^a,b   Minaev, Sergey ^c   Kumar, Sudarshan ^d   Liu, Wei ^b   Maruta, Kaoru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KHRISTIANOVICH INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; RADIAL FLOW; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

AIR MIXTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 36949040594     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/17/12/002     Document Type: Article

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